In the shadow of sectarianism
Subtitle: law, Shi'ism and the making of modern Lebanon
By: Max Weiss.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674052987
Subjects: Shīʻah -- Lebanon; Status (Law) -- Lebanon; Religion and state -- Lebanon; Lebanon -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Shiʻism, sectarianism, modernity; title: The incomplete nationalization of Jabal ʻAmil; title: The modernity of Shiʻi tradition; title: Institutionalizing personal status; title: Practicing sectarianism; title: Adjudicating society at the Jaʻfari court; title: ʻAmili Shiʻis into Shiʻi Lebanese?; title: Epilogue: making Lebanon sectarian.